From the course: Adobe Illustrator: Tips and Techniques
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Create object mosaics - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Adobe Illustrator: Tips and Techniques
Create object mosaics
- [Instructor] Object mosaics is another functionality that has been in Adobe illustrator for decades. It's been hidden behind a menu item and remains unused by most creatives. I first discovered it about seven years ago. I don't use it a lot, but for certain styles and workflow methods, it's a fun feature to utilize. So let me show you how it works and how you could utilize it in your own creative work. So we're going to start off with an Adobe stock image. It's just of a skull, I just like to atmospheric look to it, almost like smoke's coming off of it. And that's kind of what led me to the idea where I took this Adobe stock image into Photoshop. And I'm no wizard in Photoshop. I know how to use it, but I know how to use Illustrator better, let's put it that way. And all I did is I painted out the background and just created this image with the flame around it. Now, my inspiration for this was kind of thinking of the character in the comic books called Ghost Rider who has a human…
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